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News highlights for 15 November 2017 Israel joins queue to tax internet giants JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is planning to send tax bills within a year to internet companies Google and Facebook, financial newspaper TheMarker reported on Wednesday, joining efforts by several countries, including the European Union, to get the internet giants to pay more […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp Co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd on Monday said he does not understand Trump administration immigration policies that make it difficult for foreigners to work in the United States after earning an education here. “I don’t understand how we let somebody into this country go to our schools, earn degrees and […]
News highlights for July 28 Oracle to gain cloud clout with NetSuite deal; Ellison profits Oracle Corp said on Thursday it would buy NetSuite Inc for about $9.3 billion, a deal that gives it a bigger share in the fast-growing cloud computing business and also means a big payday for billionaire Larry Ellison. In addition to […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google’s Android operating system has generated revenue of about $31 billion and profit of $22 billion since its release, an Oracle Corp lawyer told a U.S. court hearing the software company’s copyright lawsuit against Google. A lawyer for Google did not discuss the figure, according to a transcript of the hearing […]
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp founder and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison said his database company is expanding its cloud-computing offerings, bringing Oracle into more direct competition with Amazon.com Inc. “We’re prepared to compete with Amazon.com on price,” said Ellison in a webcast presentation on Monday, after announcing that Oracle would offer online storage and capability for […]
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. […]
Intel bought Aepona and many onlookers have been wondering why. It strikes me that it might make a bit more sense in the context of Oracle’s recent acquisitions of Acme Packet and Tekelec. It’s important to keep in mind that for a behemoth like Intel, there’s not much risk here. Aepona’s $40MM in revenue is […]
I’ve made the argument twice now that Oracle’s acquisitions of Acme Packet and Tekelec are Big Data plays. I stand by that argument, but I also think these buys are a sign of how intelligence is moving out of the network and into a sort of new layer that pulls together things like diameter signalling and session border […]
This week on BillingViews: Ed Finegold examined what Oracle’s acquisition of Tekelec means for the industry, why Netcracker is pulling off a string of contracts, such as Swisscom, Sprint, KDDI and SingTel and why good old Microsoft Excel is the analysts’ choice. I looked at the opportunity for telecoms software vendors in the cloud, reported on the rise of […]
Oracle announced today that it will acquire network signalling control and policy management vendor Tekelec for an undisclosed amount. This follows on the heels of Oracle’s acquisition of Acme Packet, which fills a related and overlapping space in what one might loosely call the network intelligence domain. Keep in mind that Oracle has also been very active […]
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